A Quiet Breath

with so much time on her hands,

she directs her excess energy to her books - to fantasy where heroes exist in the form of a 15-year-old boy with asperger syndrome and plenty of courage; to literature where fate and infidelity defines the intimacy of a couple's relationship; to non-fiction, where academics illustrate how time pressure is inversely proportionate to a man's co-worker support network, and directly proportionate to a woman's; and to spending her afternoons in a trance, musing about her future.

all in the setting of a noisy cafe on a sunny afternoon, with the aroma of expressos in the atmosphere, nostalgic tunes from the nineties in the background, and the company of her notes and her favourite novels.